Comment 4 for bug 1861612

Sure. This has been working for a long time, including the 7.0.3 release.

The interesting question is why the behavior has changed with the switch to monotonic time.

BTW. Can you verify that is was exactly that commit changing the behavior?
https://github.com/epics-base/epics-base/commit/4f2228fb1d7527fb5ebc8b2d747c309f1dd7698d

That would make sure that we're talking about the real things here.